"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why." Bernard Baruch

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker

"Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others." Alain de Botton

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

"When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do." Walt Disney

“You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.” Colin L. Powell

“The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.” John N. Bahcall, astrophysicist (1935-2005)

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Albert Einstein

“As children we all possess a natural uninhabited curiosity, a hunger for explanations, which seems to die slowly as we age--suppressed, I suppose by the need not to appear ignorant.” Mahlon Hoagland

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” William Arthur Ward